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Brotherton Collection1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

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gas manufacture and works3
chemistry2
coal gasification2
gas industry2
gas-lighting2
municipal ownership1

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Accum, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838)2
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834)1
Boys, Thomas (1792-1880)1
Clowes, William (1779-1847)1
Fabian Society (Great Britain)1
Green, C B (1820-1822)1
Hatchard, John (1768-1849)1
Hinchcliffe, John Jubb1
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown1

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A practical treatise on gas-light: : exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas: with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy

Accum, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838); Clowes, William (1779-1847); Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834); Hatchard, John (1768-1849); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Sherwood, Neely, and Jones

1818

Final 6 pages are advertisements for Works of art published by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts, No. 101, Strand, London. Includes bibliographical references.

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Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets, houses, and public buildings, with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London, and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain; accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light

Accum, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838); Boys, Thomas (1792-1880); Green, C B (1820-1822); Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824); Read, William (1817-1842); Palmer, G H; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Hinchcliffe, John Jubb

MDCCCXX. [1820]

Accum entirely rewrote his 1815 Practical treatise on gas-light in 1819, and published it under the this title. -- University of Pennsylvania. "This forms to a certain extent a supplement to the 'Pra...

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The municipalization of the gas supply

Webb, Sidney (1859-1947); Fabian Society (Great Britain)

1900

Caption title.

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